Is it wise to “get a little bit of dirt on your hands”?You may recall the posting last week on the Swans Blog with the link to the 1979 film, War Without Weapons?

Remember Ronald Dale Barassi telling his North Melbourne Boys that the theme for the year would be, “Get a little dirt on your hands”? 28 years later, with the benefit of hindsight, it seems it may not have been such a good idea.In today’s Vietnam News newspaper (20th August) was an article with the headline, Ministry urges doctors to wash their hands.

The article went on to say that “The Ministry of Health has launched a campaign nation wide forcing doctors and medical workers to wash their hands at work to reduce the alarmingly high rate of infectious diseases in hospitals and medical centres”.

The Ministry of Health refers to it as the “Clean Hands” campaign.

Ronald Dale, what on earth were you thinking?